Are we wasting our children?
Why investing in children matters
2004 Winter Lecture series
Why investing in children matters
Why does investment in children matter? Can leadership transform the fortunes of a country, through investing in its children? I will look at evidence abroad and in New Zealand, focusing on health and disease, and challenge New Zealanders to invest in our country’s future through our children.
Read Professor Innes Asher's full presentation here: Why investing in children matters
Our Objectives
A child's potential is a terrible thing to waste.
Child Poverty Action Group is an independent charity working to eliminate child poverty in New Zealand. CPAG works on behalf of the 270,000 New Zealand children whose well-being and future is compromised by their meagre standard of living.
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better, it is not", Dr Seuss.
Latest Research
Preventing, Mitigating or Solving Child Income Poverty? The Expert Advisory Group 2012 Report.
Special Issue on Child Poverty, Policy Quarterly, Vol.9(2).
Assoc Prof Susan St John (QSO) takes a close look at the the Final Report from Children's Commissioner's Expert Advisory Group on Soultions to Child Poverty.
Published May 2013
Budget 2013 Analysis
Each year, CPAG provides an alternative, child focused analysis of the budget.
In 2013, we are pleased to provide the public with a variety of resources - including a 10 page budget analysis and presentations from our nationwide Post-budget breakfasts.
Video clips of CPAG Budget Breakfast presentations will also be available shortly.
Our guiding principle, is the right of every child in New Zealand to security, food, shelter, education and healthcare. Child Poverty Action Group